Not surprisingly, Swift praises Apple in glowing terms for responding to her open letter with a change of heart, while blasting Spotify for not doing the same:

“Apple treated me like I was a voice of a creative community that they actually cared about,” she says. “And I found it really ironic that the multi-billion-dollar company reacted to criticism with humility, and the start-up [Spotify] with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine.”

Similarly, Swift wouldn’t invite Kanye West into her inner circle until she felt a little respect:

“I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me—so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time.”

Is there a quota on the use of shade around here? There are more words in the English language. Believe me, I’m using words right now. If uproxx were a person I’d beat the shade out of it. Did I tosd you shade right now? Did you catch the shade? Is the shade heavy?

I know you’re trying to get page views, but Taylor Swift and Kanye fans will come anyway since their names are in the title. You should try writing titles that aren’t geared at teenage girls to get everyone else to read.

No offense, but I’m pretty sure that the only people at this point that actually use the term “throwing shade” are bloggers in their late 20’s to mid 30’s who are trying sound relevant to the 12-19 Demo.